# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-laporta
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:02:00.541Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-laporta"
name: "John LaPorta"
slug: "john-laporta"
description: "John Daniel LaPorta was a jazz clarinetist and composer."
tagline: "American clarinetist (1920–2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-04-13"
deathDate: "2004-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.807632
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/453850"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "جون لابورتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_LaPorta"
    title: "John LaPorta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_LaPorta"
    title: "John LaPorta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_LaPorta"
    title: "John LaPorta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_LaPorta"
    title: "John LaPorta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_LaPorta"
    title: "John LaPorta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c432120d-3ea2-451c-96a7-44e6263a05b0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1700769"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump